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Looking for data about company ownership network (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m looking for a data archive of corporation ownership networks. For example, Alphabet owns Google, … and some metadata like when they are created/owned by Alphabet if possible. I was made aware of OpenCorporates but it doesn’t seem to have such data as far as I tried.

Apologies in advance if this is not an appropriate content for the community. I figured digital archivists may be aware of the existence of such archive. I couldn’t find a specific lemmy community solely for asking about data suggestions. If there’s a community better suited for this post, please let me know.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

WikiData is a database-oriented version of Wikipedia intended for categorising relations between concepts.

For example, Google (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95) is "owned by" XXVI Holdings (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100292691) since 2017.

XXVI Holdings similarly shows that it is owned by Alphabet Inc (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20800404), which is owned by a list of people and entities with various different voting rights.

There is also the "Parent Organisation" relation (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P749) which links Google to Alphabet directly.

These should all be computer-readable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks, this is a great idea! With a quick look, this seems possible for big enough organizations, but might be spotty for others. I’ll take a closer look. Would be nice if there’s linkage to other database, such as the other commenter’s suggestion of littlesis.